I've made no secret of my love for games , particularly mmo's. What started as just goofing around on WoW turned into a long standing fascination. I levelled one of every class to 90 on Horde and nearly on Alliance side. Did this the old fashioned way too with the exception of the Death Knight which started you out from lvl 58. Most of which I did through soloing without raiding or group content. I put a lot into those chars and will miss them greatly. Game just got too dumbed down for me and I lost the passion to play it.

Point being when I play a character I intend to focus on one at a time but devote quite a bit into each one. Health reasons I have the time , there's many things I can't do so EsO is an escape for me mostly. I play other games on my Ps3/4 but really would love to get that feeling I had for WoW with EsO. Win or lose , I'm sure I'll end up playing this as long as they keep the servers open or until the time comes when i'm not able to any more. This would be much easier if I didn't log on and feel like it was a chore to level up.

I'm locked to console version , no way I can afford the cost to either build a good gaming rig or a prefab which I don't care for in the 1st place. Not whining , its just reality. Not having a sub fee is just perfect for my situation tbh. Quit smoking so that paid for my Ps4 and my Ps+ annually. Bam! Easy fix. Maybe from time to time I can buy crowns for content etc when they offer it but beyond that , don't know.

Since console launched I've hit lvl 34 as of yesterday. I'm in no great hurry really. Rush and you tend to rob yourself of half the fun imo. Miss quests , foregoing crafting , fishing exploring tend to be mistakes in my experience.

Yesterday when I logged on after a few days break , I just felt unmotivated. Almost had to force myself to quest or do anything really. Normally days like that are just spent farming mats for crafting provisioning etc. Running out of 100 bank slots and filling 90 spots in my bag space forces me to pull back on that , given the price of the extra "10 slots" for either. Everything feels way over-priced for so little an upgrade.

It's almost like feeling burned out but this hasn't been out long enough and I really haven't put that many hours into it to justify that. I used to be able to sit there and spend days grinding/farming at a time for hours. Now even logging in I kinda just sit there at the character selection screen thinking to myself , "why?". Do I really want to do this?

I really do like the game but I just don't have the passion I used to. Too many things take me right out of it. No text chat , the crafting/provisioning writs that appear daily seem pointless. Trying to save materials for either takes up what little space you have. Some questing areas are splendid and you move through quests like a hot knife through butter. Some other areas not so much and its like moving through thick mud. Needs to be alternative questing areas for variety. Molobar Tor(?) feels like Outlands in WoW to me. I don't enjoy most of it and nothing makes me want to go to the next quest other than I want to be done with the place.

This isn't meant to rag on the game at all. Maybe its just me. Heck , I can't even read this and not feel like this is a whinefest. It really wasn't meant to be , if its any consolation. Maybe a good analogy is this. I used to collect comics as a kid. Loved em. I used to take any money I could earn to garage sales , comic shops etc over the years. By the time I was 13-14 I had amassed quite a respectable collection. Many now would be worth a small mint. Anyways one year someone broke into the apartment we lived in in Christmas Eve and took everything but the tree and literally a can of pork n beans. From that day on I never had the heart to get back into collecting again. No way I'd ever be able to replace them. Many were unreplaceable. I've bought a couple now and then but nothing serious.

That kinda sums it up. Same feeling.